Alan Grayson

A U.S. House member and Democrat who was a very vocal figure in Washington during his first two years in office. He was ousted by Republican Dan Webster in the 2010 midterm elections for the U.S. District 8 House seat. In 2012, Grayson ran for a newly-drawn District 9 House seat, and was voted back into Congress. In 2014 he was re-elected to that seat, which covers all of Osceola County, and parts of Orange and Polk counties.

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In what Political Pulse imagines could become a frequent if not regular feature, here is a roundup of snippets from Central Florida election campaign activity from today (much of it disguised as candidates as legislative activity):
-- U.S. Rep. Ron...

Dr. Dena Marie Minning, a biochemist and medical doctor who has been romantically linked for months to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, filed paperwork late Friday to run for election to his seat in Congress.
A Democrat, Minning, 44, has no Florida...

Apparently the prospects of Democrat U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, Republican U.S. Reps. David Jolly or Ron DeSantis or Republican Lt. Gov. Carlos López-Cantera becoming Florida's next U.S. senator aren't scary enough for some supporters of U.S. Rep....

Two longtime Central Florida Democratic activists, including one who is a top aide to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando, have emerged as candidates to replace Carlos Guillermo Smith as chair of the Orange County Democrats.
Keith Morrison, 58, a retired...

U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores, who has spent just over a year in Congress, announced Monday morning he is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Marco Rubio.
Jolly, 42, joins a field that already has Republicans Lt. Gov. Carlos...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli turned down a request Friday from 15 members of Congress to hold statewide public hearings before the Legislature draws new congressional districts.
Republican and Democratic members of...

State Sen. Darren Soto launched his campaign for the U.S. Congress Thursday by spelling out a full platform of Democratic ideals and adding references to humility, love, inspiration and ties to Puerto Rico.
Those last four issues, for Soto, may be...

TALLAHASSEE – State Sen. Darren Soto, D-Orlando, will formally announce his run for Congress on Thursday from the Orange County Courthouse, he told reporters in a text message Tuesday.
Soto joins Susannah Randolph, wife of Orange County Tax Collector and...

Susannah Randolph, half of the Central Florida Democratic power family and a top aide to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, has confirmed she will run for Congress seeking to replace Grayson, who is running for the U.S. Senate instead of re-election.
Randolph,...

Congressman Alan Grayson is smart and courageous.
He has the rare ability to inspire citizens to act. And he is on the right side of many important issues.
But he is also loud, obnoxious and generally off-putting.
He is so frequently so over-the-top...

Susannah Randolph, half of the Central Florida Democratic power family, and a top aide to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, has confirmed she will run for Congress seeking to replace Grayson, who is running for the U.S. Senate instead of re-election.
Randolph, 41,...

Defying Democratic Party leaders, Orlando's U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson on Thursdayvowed to run a U.S. Senate campaign based on his liberal ideas and brash rhetoric that will be managed, funded and supported by people who embrace them.The three-term...

So Alan Grayson is in the U.S. Senate race.
And Republicans are absolutely giddy, predicting the Orlando Democrat's wild ways will hurt Democrats up and down the ticket.
Grayson disagrees – and yet seemed to give them fodder from the moment he...

State Sen. Darren Soto will run for the U.S. Congress intending to replace Alan Grayson in District 9 now that Congressman Grayson has announced he is running for the U.S. Senate.
"I'm planning on running for the Congress and I'll be filing next...

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, announced this morning that he is running for the U.S. Senate.
Speaking by satellite link to WKMG-TV, Local 6 Morning News in Orlando, from Washington D.C., the three-term congressman with indisputable liberal...

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is expected to announce Thursday he will run for Florida's open U.S. Senate seat.
Grayson, D-Orlando, would enter the race against fellow Democrat U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter, in a 2016 Democratic primary. Candidates...

While he remains uncommitted as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando came under increasing attack from fellow Democrats on Tuesday, including one who filed an ethics complaint against him.Celeste Bush, chairwoman of the St....

TALLAHASSEE—Rep. Alan Grayson manages hedge funds that use his name in their title, a practice prohibited by congressional ethics rules designed to prevent members from using their elected post for financial gain, according to a Politico report.
In the...

Early this morning, as I was reading Marco Rubio’s op-ed in the Sentinel -- “Marco Rubio: New VA hospital a milestone but agency needs more work“ -- it took me a moment to figure what irked me so much.
I mean, I certainly agree that the new Orlando...